n a smaller scale under LBJ. Frustrated by objections raised by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, friction between FBI and CIA and the inability of those agencies to find links between domestic radicals and foreign enemies, Nixon sought to increase the control of the White House over such activities. This led to the Huston Plan of July 14, 1970, which called for a greatly expanded and centrally directed program of domestic counter-intelligence gathering and surveillance of radicals by clandestine and illegal means. Hoover succeeded in vetoing the Huston Plan; but White House efforts to circumvent the bureaucracy continued.
After the New York Times published the Pentagon Papers (a classified history of America's pre-1969 involvement in the Vietnam War which was provided to it by former Defense Department consultant Daniel Ellsberg) on June 13, 1971, Genovese said "the Nixon administration decided to take matters into its own hands" (15-16). It formed a secret White House Special Investigations Unit (the Plumbers) headed
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